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THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
October 14 
Live Stock and D ai r y 
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USE OF MILKING TUBES. 
We used to hear a great deal in the dairy 
papers about the use of milking tubes. 
Lately, however, very little is ever said 
about them; in fact, they are rarely men¬ 
tioned. Do you think that they are going 
out of use? Do farmers as a rule still 
operate the tubes as they used to? 
So far as I know, milking tubes were 
never used to any great extent as a sub¬ 
stitute for hand milking. They are, 
however, of considerable use in drawing 
the milk from diseased or inflamed ud¬ 
ders, and in cases where injury to the 
teats has occurred. Good farmers and 
large dairymen keep a milking tube on 
hand constantly for cases of this sort. 
Cornell University. u. h. wing. 
Our experience with milking tubes 
has not been satisfactory, on the whole. 
At least nine times out of 10 the use of 
the teat was finally lost. We have tried 
them repeatedly in cases of so-called 
contagious garget, a scabby growth on 
the end .of the teat, but it had a ten¬ 
dency to carry the disease into the teat, 
where it is almost impossible to treat 
it. My observation seems to coincide 
with this experience. The membrane of 
the milk duct seems to be very sensitive, 
and the introduction of a foreign sub¬ 
stance is likely to create inflammation. 
Denmark, N. Y. h. e. cook. 
The Whole Story. —The milking tube 
has a place on every dairy farm, and 
its place is to use only when it 
is impossible to milk a cow with 
the hand. A few years ago in¬ 
strument makers advertised them ex¬ 
tensively, and some even recommended 
them for general use in milking any and 
all cows that were hard milkers, or 
those that had sore teats. This was a 
great mistake. Theoretically a milking 
tube can be passed up a cow’s teat, and 
the milk will run out to some extent. 
But there was always a little left. The 
old cow has a little cow sense, and she 
won’t be fooled entirely by any scheme 
that has thus far been devised by man. 
She wants to have her udder manipu¬ 
lated to some extent, as the calf would 
do in drawing the milk, and when this 
is not done milk is not manufactured. 
Much of the milk is made during the 
time of milking, and unless there is 
some motion going on about the udder, 
the old cow practically says: “Nay; 
there is no one working at my udder to 
get milk, so I won’t make it.” This has 
been the great trouble, not alone with 
the milk tube, but with all milking ma¬ 
chines. The cow kept yielding less and 
less, until in a few days or weeks, she 
was dried off. 
There is another reason why milking 
tubes came into disrepute. They were 
improperly handled; cows’ teats are of 
far different size and length. A milk¬ 
ing tube three inches long was frequent¬ 
ly run the whole length up a two-inch- 
long teat; the udder was injured at the 
base of the teat, and an inflammation 
followed, which sometimes ruined the 
udder. Again, some neglected properly to 
clean the tube; germs accumulated upon 
it, which, when they came in contact 
with the sensitive membrane of the 
milk channel inflamed it. Dirty hands 
also handled it, and the tube, although 
it had once been well cleaned, contained 
irritating germs when it entered the 
teat. Nevertheless, the milking tube is 
sometimes needed, and there is seem¬ 
ingly no way to milk a cow without its 
use, when she has cowpox, or she has 
in some manner injured one or more 
teats, rendering it impossible to draw 
the milk by the hand. Then is the time, 
and the only time, that a milking tube 
should be used, and its use should be 
stopped just as quick as the emergency 
of the case will permit. Before using, 
always dip in a little hot water, then in 
a little pure olive oil, and carefully in¬ 
sert up the teat, using judgment as to 
how far it should be inserted. During 
the time it remains in the teat, with the 
hand gently rub and squeeze the quar¬ 
ter, thus causing the regular amount of 
milk to be secreted and brought down 
into the milk cistern, when it will pass 
out through the tube. Used when neces¬ 
sary only, and used properly, a milking 
tube made of silver, or hard rubber, is 
of great value to use in emergency cases, 
but for general use, or if carelessly 
handled, it is worse than useless. 
C. D. SMEAD, V. S. 
Milking tubes never have been “very 
much in use” among dairymen, for the 
reason that they do not milk, only open 
the milk orifice, and let what milk will, 
run out by gravity, and do not get at the 
“fountains,” as does the pulling and 
bunting of the calf, or the drawing and 
gathering of the milker’s hand. In milk 
giving there is a something in working 
or manipulating of the udder that stim¬ 
ulates milk formation by exciting the 
nerve centers of the udder. Milking 
tubes will not get all of the milk; they 
do not get the normal amount of fat, as 
compared with hand milking, and by 
their continued use the flow of milk is 
not promoted, and the cow rapidly dries, 
or shrinks greatly in her yield. The 
tubes cannot be recommended for gen¬ 
eral use. Their only place is in case a 
cow has a very sore teat, or has injured 
it so that hand milking is about impos¬ 
sible, then the tube comes in play. It is 
covered with glycerine, introduced into 
the teat, and as soon as the flow of milk 
begins to diminish, the part of -the udder 
being drained by the tube is worked and 
pressed, and milk secretion stimulated 
by the hands of the milker until all is 
out, when the tube is withdrawn. Often 
anything like continuous milking with 
the tubes creates irritation of the lining 
of the teats, and inflammation follows, 
and the cure is worse than the disease. 
It is one of the faults of the milking 
machine, that there is no manipulation 
of the udder connected with its working, 
and the results are not equal to hand 
milking for this very reason. It is a 
plan of Walter Hussey, who really has 
invented, and uses, a machine that does 
milk, and probably the main reason of 
its value, that before the cow is fully 
milked the operator of the machine sits 
down, and rapidly, though gently, 
handles and manipulates the udder of 
the cow, with the result, that there is a 
fresh flow of milk, and with all of the 
remaining fats, for as all know, the last 
of the milk is several times richer in 
fats than the first. It is in these two 
things, other things being equal, where¬ 
in the tubes fail—getting all of the milk, 
and getting the rich strippings. All 
realize that a well-stripped cow gives 
more milk, and for a longer period than 
a poorly-milked cow. Yes, use the tubes 
as an assistant in getting milk through 
wounded and sore teats, and do not use 
them for any other purpose. 
Ohio. JOHN GOULD. 
CALF-FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
I cannot get any hired man to appre¬ 
ciate the importance of the thermome¬ 
ter in calf feeding. The calf starts off 
all right, and soon it is scouring; then, 
if I watch around the corner, I will see 
the man go to the stove and test the 
milk with his finger, and usually, when 
so tested, it is at least 10 degrees too 
cold. All our men have had this same 
fault; they don’t understand that a few 
degrees make a great difference. One 
Winter about four or five years ago, my 
wife thought she would try a calf, so I 
bought her one of Durham stock, three 
days old, for $3. She fed that calf her¬ 
self with a Small’s calf-feeder, using 
nothing but skim-milk, but she kept the 
vessel clean, saw that the calf did not 
get too much, and occasionally mas¬ 
saged its back, and when it was four 
weeks and three days old sold it to a 
butcher for $9.60, or $1.65 per week for 
the skim-milk it ate. Of course, this 
was an exceptionally good calf, and it 
had brains to look after it. But you 
can’t hire any one to take the pains 
with a calf that she did with that one 
(and she won’t do it again). She 
wouldn’t have done it, only that she 
thought she knew more about it than 
I did, and I had to own up to that fact. 
Oats make fine calf feed, but we find 
we cannot afford to raise oats, and they 
cost more for the food equivalents than 
bran, so we use them sparingly. Oats 
are particularly valuable for Billy Berk¬ 
shire, while he is little Willie Berk¬ 
shire. STOCKMAN. 
Ohio. 
For general debility, want of appetite, sick bead- 
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Vermifuge are usually very efficacious. 
In the worst colds, where there Is pain, constriction 
of the Bronchial tabes, and spasms of the muscles 
of the chest, Jayne's Expectorant will afford almost 
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For Headache, take Jayne’s Rainless Sanative 
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